Live From Mars is fantastic. I remember a show he gave in Lisbon few years after, a few months before he released There Will Be a Ligh. I started having chills while he was singing/living Where Could I Go.
Vinyl Me Please Essentials
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Live From Mars is fantastic. I remember a show he gave in Lisbon few years after, a few months before he released There Will Be a Ligh. I started having chills while he was singing/living Where Could I Go.
Webb_615
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I was unware of him until I saw him open for Pearl Jam at Memorial Stadium in 1996 on the Anti-Ticketmaster tour.
Blew me away.
Made me an instant fan.
If you are a completest - are you aware of his release?
Its great.
Ben Harper And Tom Freund - Pleasure And Pain
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Yep. Have that one. Even grabbed this French boxset. Missing some singles but that's about it.
Ben Harper - 3
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Webb_615
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The acoustic side is definitely my favorite, but man, I love it all.
1996 : Best Albums of 1996
Would be cool to see Long Season being repressed. The only existing press sells for hundred of dollars. Plus they could extend their customer base to Japanese collectors.
1983 : Best Albums of 1983
There is a reissue of Violent Femmes coming for RSD but on Picture Disc. Maybe we'll have the standard version?
2003 : Best Albums of 2003
Linkin Park - Meteora? Kind of fits metal hint per VMP standards
my wishlist that will never, ever happen:
1996: aenima
1983: swordfishtrombones
2003: let it be naked
mitchwagz
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Possibly the best guesses but absolutely will not ever happen.
MikeH
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Craft did a Violent Femmes reissue cut by Kevin Gray that's still in print.
So not this
Viking Dan
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This is my greatest fear of the upcoming quarter.
The RSD drop last year (two years ago?) got snatched right up, I imagine the VMP will be popular too if that's the route they're going to take.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as "metal", but it is a great album IMO. 22 year old me approves - if I didn't grab the RSD.
EDIT: Holy shit those discog prices.
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Murfocakes
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Kill Em All the only essential in a list with Holy Diver and Piece Of Mind…. Nah.
But if VMP are doing metal it might be Frontiers by Journey.
Only in the sense that KEA has more broad commercial appeal to the masses than dio or an early golden era maiden classic. For my money, piece of mind would be the best pick out of those. Maybe suicidal, to get the folks into punk/hardcore adjacent; it's hard to argue the cross-genre appeal of ST. Doubtless they would fuck it up and use the re-recorded "Institutionalized" instead of the original mix.
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Plumcrazyfx
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You missing the obvious metal choice- Jethro Tull Crest of a Knave.
TheThinWhiteDuke
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The real question is if they could make anything better than the recent Bellman cut Metallica reissues and no probably not
mitchwagz
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Maybe if they spread it across two records? It’s not the best sounding recording in the first place though so probably not.
Just thinking out loud here. With VMP doing Madman Across The Water and Honky Chateau in the past year... This year is the 50th Anniversary of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road... They're a pretty good bet to do this one in Essentials this calendar year eh?
wmeugene
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As good as anything else I’d say
keylime_5
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Well Honky Chateau turned 50 in 2022 but we’re not getting the 50th reissue until midway through 2023, so I’m thinking a GYBR reissue probably comes out next year unless they were just behind schedule with the last one
Gavaxeman
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Goodbye Yellow .. is a great album (except for that reggae jerk off abomination) .. funeral for a friend / loves likes bleeding is one of the best opening tracks by anyone ever
keylime_5
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Say what you will about it but Jamaican jerk off is a catchy as hell song